In the future of space, each starship is equipped with a science

>>51240271
The science officer is an AI.

Like mentats but with hard science?

>>51240271

They have a staff of blueshirts who are more specialized and feed them data and on occasion reasoning and hunches for things they're not sure about.

The Science Officer's main job is to process that technical data and convey it to the non-science staff in a way they can understand and having recommendations about what to do based on it.

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>>51240271
Space autism

>>51240394
>>51240355
These.
Also head computers.

>>51240449
>head computers
All you need is a Google parser

>>51240478
There's no internet in deep space. The cyborg science officer needs to insert discs into his head.

>>51240271
They don't. They're the head of the science division, where a bunch of NNNNNEEEEERRRRRDS specialized in the various relevant fields (biology, astronomy, physics, treknobabble, etc.) report to them with their findings, and the science officer directs their research and merges their results for summary report to captain and the Space Navy.

Space Gods help them if the head science officer is a pointy-haired nitwit. Worse yet, if they're pointy-haired and pointy-eared.

>>51240271
Hundreds of billions of citizens, hundreds of ships.

If only 1 in a billion person can master all science, then there's enough for one on every ship in the fleet.

It's like asking my a few dozen astronauts all manage to be olympic level athletes with multiple advanced degrees and no disabilities of any kind.

>>51240271
They only know the jargon, and just make stuff up as they go, hoping nobody catches on.

This is an elite job so they all have been genetically designed by their parents for a very high IQ and quasi-superhuman learning capacity.
Think at least 160 IQ with a bit of idiot savan
Education is also a lot more efficient in the future.

>>51240355

Mentats combined with cybernetic enhancements to let them interface with the ship's central servers when they rest. When they pull into port their primary tasks is to essentially upload all information they have and assimilate data accumulated while they were away.

There is an entire guild of such individuals who maintan these massive server services and whore it out to anyone with the money to pay access to them. Having one such individual who can access these is almost a requirement to have a ship if you plan on going further than the local systems.

>>51240271
>How are they taught so many subjects?
Suppository.

>>51240539
Actually the space cyborg only supports magnetic tapes.